Osama Quotes

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don`t even know you. All of a sudden, you`re, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I`m going through. Interview with Blender Magazine, September 2003.

Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans. It would have been better if the UN had been together. Now it`s become very bloody with Iraq, it`s very difficult. If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn`t just want to sit there and say thank you. I`d be angry like I think anyone would be, so I could see America and Britain being angry. To look for (Osama Bin Laden) seemed reasonable to go against terrorism, but the war has become very difficult.

He went for the head. Kill the king, and your enemy folds. Alexander would have gone after Osama bin Laden. I`m sorry, but Kerry was right.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

We have right now a media that is willfully ignoring the high crimes and misdemeanors of the president of the United States. Clinton lied about a blow job, and got impeached by the media and Congress. Bush got us into the Iraq war based on lies that he knew were lies. ... His war has recruited more Al- Qaeda members than Osama bin Laden could ever have dreamed for ... yet no one in the media is calling for impeachment. Unfortunately, the book and the play is more relevant now than it ever has been. It talks about continuous warfare as a means to control the Western economy, and as a way to control rebel elements within society through the use of fear, constant fear. In my country we seem to be sanctioning renditioning of innocent people without trial ... put them in jail without telling anyone ... and torture them out of suspicion of what we think they might do. This is exactly what Orwell was talking about when he spoke of thought crimes.

That`s the difference in me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying (to kill Osama Bin Laden). They had eight months (before September 11th) to try; they did not try.

This is a global effort we`re going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It`s more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. ... That`s a core essence of the religion. ... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

But here too it should be noted that the President`s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full of activities and shootouts between Islamists who supported Osama bin Laden and the government there.

I`m much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don`t believe in inevitability. But I think it`s pretty close to being inevitable.

`The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it`s the Christmas present he never would have expected.

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

Osama bin Laden`s own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

I don`t think Osama is a Muslim. I don`t think Osama is a human being.

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

If Osama bin Laden is still Public Enemy No. 1, we have a challenge to find him among Pashto-speaking people whose nuances we`re poorly prepared to interpret.

I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.

We have a variety of intelligence and we`re sure we`re going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We`ve learned lessons from Iraq and we`re getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.